Lord of the silver lilies, canst thou tell
If the same fate await not thy descendant?
Lord E.L.B. Lytton, The Duchess de la Vallière (1836).
Lily Maid of Astolat, Elaine (q.v.). (See also Launcelot and Elaine).
Lily of Medicine (The), a treatise written by Bernard Gordon, called Lilium Medicinæ (1480). (See Gordonius).
Lily Floyd Curtis. A New York belle, whose mother sets out with the aim that Lily is to make a grand match, and keeps it steadily before her. By a series of dexterous manœuvres the admirable republican parent prevents a marriage between the girl and the man she loves, and makes her countess of Melrose.—Constance Gary Harrison, The Anglo-Maniacs (1890).
Lily Servosse, daughter of a Northern man, who settles in the South soon after the war, in the hopeful expectation of winning favor with his neighbors and helping them to create a new South. In the fruitless enterprise his daughter is his zealous and loving coadjutor.—Albion W. Tourgeé, A Fool’s Errand (1879).
Limberham, a tame, foolish keeper. Supposed to be meant for the duke of Lauderdale.—Dryden, Limberham or The Kind Keeper.
Limbo of the Moon. Ariosto, in his Orlando Furioso, xxxiv. 70, says, in the moon are treasured up the precious time misspent in play, all vain efforts, all vows never paid, all counsel thrown away, all desires that lead to nothing, the vanity of titles, flattery, great men’s promises, court services, and death-bed alms. Pope says:
There heroes’ wits are kept in ponderous vases,